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Colin Brown's Photographs

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A group of photographs from the 1940s to the 1960s collected by Colin Brown. His parents Gerry and Thelma Brown appear in some of the images.
The Colin Brown Collection

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This collection comprises four different groups of items. The largest group contains pages of a local newspaper called the North Bucks Record, dated in 1910. These paint a fascinating picture of life before the Great War. The other three groups have photographs from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s taken in Bletchley, sketches made in the ...
The North Bucks Record of 1910

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Bound collection of issues of the North Bucks Record – July 1910 to December 1910. This weekly newspaper was established on 26 October 1907 and claims that it is “non-political and unsectarian”. It was printed and published by Edward Williams Walford at the “Walford Press”, 29 High Street, Fenny Stratford. Highlights include the formation of ...
Homeworld Images

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A collection of images of the Homeworld Exhibition. One is an exhibition poster, the rest are photographs taken recently of some of the houses which were part of the exhibition.
Interview with Tim Skelton

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Tim was a Negotiation Surveyor in the Private Housing Unit at Milton Keynes Development Corporation and was responsible for individual self-build housing plots and so HomeWorld was seen as an opportunity for the Corporation to sell plots to people who would buy kit houses they had seen at HomeWorld. The Shopping Building had just ...
Homeworld

HWC

Homeworld was the first of three international housing exhibitions held in Milton Keynes. It was planned by Milton Keynes Development Corporation – the government agency responsible for developing the New City between 1967-92. The exhibition ran for the month of May in 1981 and more than 150,000 people paid to come and “see what’s happening ...
66: THE WIZARD OF WOLVERTON REMEMBERED

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Much loved Wolverton character Les Jeffrey, who taught countless people to juggle and died of cancer in 2021, has been remembered in a new artwork on the west wall of Wolverton’s community centre, The Old Bath House on Stratford Road.
Just A Pennyworth - But A Revealing Read (3 October 1974)

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A week or two back I gave some advertising items from the Fenny Stratford Weekly Times of August 28, 1879, which I trust were not without interest. Now I turn to the paper’s local editorial content. It comprises only four-and-a-half columns on the back page of the four-page paper, but I personally find it a ...
The College That Started It All (27 September 1974)

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At the end of the 1939-45 war, there was a dire shortage of teachers. Auxiliary teacher-teaching-colleges were set up and two-year crash courses were instituted to take the place of the normal three-year curriculum. During the war, a large number of government buildings had been erected in Bletchley Park. For various reasons, all these were now ...
Those Were The Good Old Days... Or Were They? (20 September 1974)

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On rainy days – and at the time of writing we are having lots of them – there is nothing I like more than looking through old newspapers, especially “local rags”. By “old” I mean anything published more than 50 years ago. Maybe because I was 50 years at the trade, I find that they ...
Those Gigantic Black Boxes Are Giving Us All The Creeps (13 September 1974)

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As we older residents of Bletchley view the developments now going on at the station end of the former Bletchley Road, now Queensway, I do not think I shall be far wrong in stating that our general reaction is one of mingled distaste and dismay. Those gigantic black boxes of impending new shops now blocking off ...
Motoring Through The Ages (6 September 1974)

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What struck you most about the plans for the central area of Milton Keynes new city? For my part it was the two-decker transport system, whereby the private cars of shoppers would be segregated from service vans and lorries. This is in line with the development corporation’s first-announced intention of creating a motor car city. I ...